ps: I just arrived by car, and there is only one big chapter

From the moment he stepped into the realm of Zheng Guo, Wang Sunsheng's hands trembled. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Four years, after four years of waiting, he finally won a chance for himself to lead the army alone, although there is only one division under his command, and the main task is to protect the craftsmen such as the Gong Loss Class to Chenggao, but Wang Sunsheng doesn't care, as long as he can give him the opportunity to take revenge on Zheng Guo in person.

The last time he came to Zheng Guo was thirty years ago, when he was still an infant, but after hearing a lot of stories about his father-in-law Wu Zixu, Wang Sunsheng sometimes pieced together the past in his mind to retrieve memories that did not belong to him.

In the far south of Fangcheng, the plain where the Jianghan rush through, there is a place where the green hills are vertical and horizontal, and the flowers bloom in the plains, where there is the rich Yunmeng Daze, and the towering Zhanghuatai, the locals call themselves Chu, and the people of the Central Plains also call them Jing, scolding them for "stupid and barbaric Jing, and the big state is the enemy"! Although Wang Sunsheng has never returned to Yingdu, he can imagine the vast land and wealth of Chu, as well as the pride of Jing Barbarian hidden deep in his blood.

Wang Sunsheng's father, the abolished prince of Chu, was established as the heir by King Chuping early, and was supplemented by Wu Hao and Fei Wuji, and at the same time asked for him to marry the princess of Qin.

Originally, everything was on the right track, and the crown prince Jianhui successfully married a wife, waited smoothly, and succeeded to the throne as the king of Chu smoothly...... However, the lustful and insatiable King Chuping repented, and after seeing the beautiful bride, he snatched his son's fiancée, and a rift ensued between father and son. Prince Jian's situation is becoming increasingly difficult, in the sixth year of King Ping, he was forced to leave the Chu capital, living in the city father, the following year, Fei Wuji slandered King Ping, framing him to join Jin to rebel against Chu for chaos.

King Ping forcibly accepted his son's wife, he has always been restless, seeing the prince Jian more and more unpleasant, he was doubly favored after the birth of the young son Xiong Zhen in the Duke of Qin, and he had already had the heart of abolishing the young man, and the scene of Jin Xiangong wanting to kill the prince Shensheng was staged again. So the prince was afraid and ran to the Song Dynasty, began a life of exile, and later because of the rebellion of the Song Guohua, and entered Zheng, Wang Sunsheng was still the flesh and blood of the fetus in his mother's womb at that time, maybe he was not born, he was also destined to have a wandering fate......

The Zheng people initially treated the prince with courtesy and gave him a small city, but the prince was ambitious, and he and his subordinate Wu Zixu and others plotted to gain a piece of territory, looking for an opportunity to counterattack the state of Chu and regain everything that should have belonged to him. So he took advantage of the Zheng people's trust in him and planned an attack on Zheng Guo with the Jin people, Zheng Guo's ruling uncle noticed and obtained evidence, sent his son You Su to raid the Fengyi, arrested the prince Jian with the help of the countrymen, and sentenced him to death in Xinzheng with the law of childbirth!

At that time, Wang Sunsheng was still an eight-month-old child, lying on his mother's chest and sucking milk, according to convention, as a defector son, he should have been sacrificed to the king of Chu by Zheng Guoren, and then thrown to the ground by the Chu people bloody and fell to death! The royal struggle of the Chu State has always been cruel, it is very common for a son to kill his father, a brother to kill a brother, and an uncle to kill a nephew, and King Chuping succeeded to the throne after forcing three brothers to death in a row.

The big tree fell, and the retainers of the prince Jianjian scattered, but Wu Zixu stood up, he held a long sword, took a few dead soldiers back to the city, brought Wang Sunsheng out, and fled to Chen Guo under the cover of night.

Along the way, they ate and slept in the open, Wang Sunsheng was so hungry that he screamed without milk, Wu Zixu could only poke his fingers, stretched into his small mouth the size of a bean and sucked, he grew up tasting hot blood, those names that were often chanted in Wu Zixu's mouth: King Chuping, Ling Yin Zichang, Fei Wuji, King Xiong Zhen of Chu, Uncle Zheng Guozi, You Su, maybe at that time, through the slightly salty blood, deeply branded in Wang Sunsheng's heart!

When the sky was bright and the moon was empty, Wu Zixu passed through the Zhao Pass at night, and Wang Sunsheng hid in the basket, as long as he couldn't help but let out a cry, he would be taken down by Chen Ren. But everything was safe, and when he was carried out of the bamboo basket, he found that Wu Zixu's black hair was all white overnight......

ran to the country of Wu in such a stumbling way, and only then did he have a place to live. But at the beginning, their days became more and more difficult, all the cloth was spent, and they could only beg for a living.

Over the years, Wu Zixu has treated Wang Sunsheng kindly, but seriously, when he strokes the top of his head, his hands are as soft as leather, but when teaching swordsmanship and the art of war, he is cold and stiff, and it hurts to hit his face, and every day he will recite the name of the enemy to him, so that he will remember it in his heart.

"Ling Yin Zichang, King of Chu Xiong Zhen, swim fast!"

Even the dead will not be spared, Wu Zixu swore that he would dig up the tombs of King Chuping, Fei Wuji, and Uncle Zi!

The seeds of revenge began to take root and germinate in Wang Sunsheng's heart at that time, and eventually grew into the towering tree it is now.

Now, Wu Zixu's revenge has been avenged, but for Wang Sunsheng, he must inflict the scene of the broken whip corpse on Zheng Guo's head in order to dissipate the hatred in his heart!

At the thought of the imminent battle with the Zheng Guoren, Wang Sunsheng was so excited that he couldn't even restrain his hands from trembling, and he had to prick them with his halberd to make his mood feel a little lighter.

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On the fourth day after the departure from Chaoge, they began to cross the river from the east of Wen County, although the combat effectiveness of the Zhao clan's large river boat division was not strong, but the transportation capacity was not weak, and it was impressive under the management of the ancient vehicle. It was a bit rough and windy, the warm south wind was blowing non-stop, the chestnut groves with petals and green leaves rustling, and the reeds on the shore were bent over.

After crossing the big river, they braved the sun of exposure, and walked more than ten miles to Chenggao, at this time the sun will soon set, only to see the tall Chenggao, worthy of its name "Tiger Prison", sure enough, like a solid city, the rammed earth sand and stone sandwiched wall is bathed in the golden red sunshine, standing on the dangerous terrain to appear taller and thicker. Solid, Wang Sunsheng only thought of this word to describe it, no wonder the Han family fought so hard.

Compared with the swiftness and calmness of the Zhao army's entire takeover of the river, Han's strategy of Chenggao was sluggish and clumsy, and one or two could be glimpsed from the besieging military camp alone.

As the sun went down, the tents and campfires of the Korean army were so disorderly and scattered that the scholars and high-ranking people set up their tents comfortably in the upper reaches of the urinals, while the downstream was full of filthy small tents, chariots and horses.

"Our army surrounded Chenggao with water, four divisions were stationed outside the four gates, and one division was by the river, which was convenient for getting water and transport......ing food," Duan Gui welcomed with his deputy general Han Anping, and also briefly introduced the siege situation.

Wang Sunsheng sneered: "In this way, are you planning to starve and descend to Chenggao?" ”

Duan Gui was a little embarrassed, his background was not too high, in the eyes of this handsome and proud Wang Sun, it seemed that he was inferior to him, but if he asked for help, he could only shake his head, "Zheng General Ziyao in the city has already driven out all the idle people who have nothing to do with defense out of the city, and looted the outside of the city. His current storage of grain and grass is estimated to last a whole year. ”

"What about Han's grain and grass? Is it collected on the spot, or is it transferred? “

Han Anping smiled bitterly: "Most of the people I sent to collect returned empty-handed, and Zheng Guo's businessmen did not cooperate. "Although there are no merchants and no traitors, Zheng Guo's merchants have a high example as an example, and they think it is still very high, plus they have always competed with the merchants controlled by the Han clan, and they are even more reluctant to come to fight for the tiger.

"But as long as there are boats in the river coming from Han's Hanoi territory, we can still hold on."

Wang Sunsheng said: "I said in advance that our military rations must also be provided by the Han family. ”

"This ...... Hedong and Hewai are separated by pillars, water transportation is inconvenient, and there is not much grain in Hanoi, even the Han family himself can't be satisfied. ”

Wang Sunsheng didn't give an inch, and replied coldly: "If the food is exhausted, we will turn around and leave immediately." “

Duan Gui gritted his teeth, and could only agree to go down by himself and find another way.

He had never commanded several armies, and he lacked experience in conquering cities, and compared to the Zhao clan, who could promote officers from the grassroots level, there were very few generals with similar experience in the Han clan, so he could only use the children of a small sect like Han Anping. They did not follow the example of the Zhao family to carry out military reform like the Wei family, or the previous feudal aristocratic army, so the territory, population, and soldiers increased, but the combat effectiveness was still like that, and the Zheng Guoren, who had a strong sense of national identity, naturally couldn't get too much bargain.

However, the Han clan also made up for the shortcomings in other aspects, that is, military equipment.

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When Lu Ban arrived with Zhao's craftsmen, the camp of the Korean army was filled with the sound of wooden hammers, a brand new siege tower was being built, and two more had been built, and between the two towers, there were many replicas of the ladders, which attracted Lu Ban's attention.

Before the civil war in Liuqing, the Han family was originally famous for the large number of craftsmen, and some half-percent handicraft products were also important commodities sold by the Han merchants.

In Lu Ban's eyes, the imitation ladder in front of him was quite qualified, at least it could send people to the city smoothly, but he was very dissatisfied with the shoddy imitation of those trebuchets.

The shelf is shorter than Zhao's, the stones launched are smaller than Zhao's, and even the range is dozens of steps shorter, and it is almost within the range of the bow and arrow at the head of the city, so it is of little significance.

It's no wonder that the Han craftsmen, the ladders, they really saw them during the civil war, but the trebuchet, the Zhao family was very cautious about this, and they dismantled it when they ran out, and as for the ballista used in the Battle of Wenshui, they didn't have a chance to see its true face.

And even if they are exactly the same, Lu Ban doesn't take it to heart, after a few years of development, after the brainstorming of the elite craftsmen of the Yecheng Academy, the Zhao army already has a stronger, farther, and more terrifying siege weapon!

The only regret for Lu Ban was that the war ended too quickly when he attacked the Hejian of Qi State, and they had no time to test the test, so they could only go back in a huff, but they suddenly heard that Zheng Guo had started a war, and they were also happy at first, thinking that they finally had the opportunity to use it in actual combat.

However, Zhao Wuxian set a ban for him, strictly prohibiting the use of new weapons, but he had to find a way to help Han Jiang Cheng Gao bite open.

"It's really letting the horses run and letting the horses not eat grass!" Lu Ban, who was only in his early twenties, was young and vigorous, and he was quite helpless about it.

After thinking about it, after walking around Chenggao and observing the geographical situation, he finally had an idea, so he confidently said to Duan Gui and Wang Sunsheng: "Give me ten days, and I can go down to Chenggao in one fell swoop!" ”

Duan Gui said worriedly: "Ten days? But Zheng Qingzi had already arrived in Dongyu with reinforcements, only a day's walk from here, and Zheng's army had at least five or six thousand people. ”

Wang Sunsheng's mission on this trip was to protect Lu Ban and the craftsmen, which made him very dissatisfied, but Lu Ban was even more important within the Zhao family than him, and he held the position of Gongzheng and ranked among the middle doctors. He didn't want to watch the craftsmen sawing wood and measuring the ink distance here all day long, so he took the initiative to respond: "I will take the soldiers to Dongyu to stop the Zheng people for ten days." ”

With the help of Zhao Jun, Duan Gui was naturally happy, he generously allocated a division, listened to the command of Wang Sunsheng, and joined forces with Zhao with 5,000 troops to intercept Zheng Guo's reinforcements on the periphery, while Lu Ban worked overtime to start construction under Chenggao City......

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Zheng Guo's guards who defended Chenggao were actually not many, only 2,000 people, it is said that there were only 500 at first, but Han's forwards were stubbornly repelled by them, Zheng Guo asked Ziyao to send troops to station, and the two sides played refueling tactics like this, and the stalemate lasted for more than a month, and the physical strength and patience of the soldiers on both sides of the attack and defense were slowly exhausted, and they were a little slack off on the siege day after day.

Originally, it was delayed until the next batch of reinforcements arrived, and this offensive and defensive battle was almost over, but what Ziyao didn't know was that there was a new siege expert outside the city who was the most powerful siege expert of this era.

When Lu Ban first arrived, he gathered all the craftsmen of the Han clan and threw a drawing in front of them.

"You dug a tunnel before, and now you need to keep digging."

Everyone thought that the famous "Luban" could have some amazing siege method, but they didn't expect it to be as ordinary as theirs, and some people said sneeringly: "Chenggao wall is thick, and there are stones for the foundation, it is difficult to dig and collapse, if you want to dig into the city, it is even more difficult, we have tried, but after digging into the city, it was noticed by the Zheng people, poured water into the tunnel, drowned hundreds of people, and the tunnel also collapsed." ”

"Thou shalt do as thou shalt do, and from now on, all craftsmen will obey me!"

Although Lu Ban is young and light-tempered, he is not small, after all, this person with the title of Zhao's doctor is a famous craftsman in the world, and the things that the Han craftsmen have imitated in recent years are all his first creations, prestige and power in hand, how dare everyone disobey, so they will only go down and execute.

Han's idle manpower was requisitioned by Lu Ban, and he continued to dig along the previous tunnel with rudimentary tools, aiming at the corner of Chenggao, with Lu Ban's many years of civil engineering experience, it was clear at a glance that this was the weakest part of the foundation of the wall.

Most of the tools used by Han were bronze, and there were even wooden shovels, so although they were non-stop day and night, the progress was also very slow, until the fifth day, Lu Ban couldn't help it. He sent a batch of new tools called "sapper shovels" sent by Wen County, and the Han laborers soon found that the iron shovel blade was extremely convenient for digging soil and stones, the short handle was easy to carry and use, and even the lacquered wooden handle was not easy to slip off, and they immediately couldn't put it down, but it was a pity that Lu Ban threatened to return each one after use, and if he dared to hide it privately, Han could promise him the right to kill people on the spot.

Day after day, on the ninth day, after turning a corner along the old tunnel, the tunnel, which could accommodate two people to enter and exit side by side, finally dug under the Chenggao wall, and could touch the cold wall with a raised hand.

It is impossible to dig down the city wall by manpower, according to past experience, you should try to continue inside, but when they got here, Lu Ban asked them to stop.

Everyone asked puzzledly, "Gongzheng, don't you continue digging?" ”

"No, it's enough to widen and dig a little deeper at the end of the tunnel." Although Luban was not satisfied with the efficiency, he managed to finish the project before the agreed date. For a while, the craftsmen were excited to see their results, and at the same time looked at Lu Ban with anticipation, hoping that he could show himself the wonderful siege method as if he were a trick.

However, what Lu Ban asked people to do next shocked the craftsmen even more, and he had the forty fat and ugly old sows that he had sent from Hanoi earlier driven into the tunnel in one go......

(To be continued.) )